Beginner question: how do I unload my asset now?

Asset & Content Management Addressables
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I’m new to addressables. I’m trying to get my music to use addressables since music tracks are some of the larger files in my game, and (in this game) it makes sense to load and unload them separately from the rest of the scene data.

I’ve been following a tutorial, and I figured out how to load an arbitrary file type instead of a game object. So far, it is working. This is what I’ve got:

    private void LoadNextSong()
    {
        if (NextSong == MusicTrack.Silence)
        {
            return;
        }
        if (NextSong == CurrentSong)
        {
            Jukebox.Play();
            return;
        }
        CurrentSong = NextSong;
        Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<AudioClip>( GetSongAddress(CurrentSong) ).Completed += SongLoaded;
    }

    private void SongLoaded(AsyncOperationHandle<AudioClip> obj)
    {
        if (obj.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded)
        {
            Jukebox.clip = obj.Result;
            Jukebox.Play();
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Failed to load music track!");
            GameManager.HUD.BroadcastMessageToPlayer("Failed to load music", 2.5f);
        }
    }

However, what I can’t seem to find is how to now unload the old song from memory. The tutorials I found just talk about game objects, (and they say that I should release the object instead of destroying it,) but I didn’t load a game object, I just loaded a straight audio clip.

How do I unload the old song from memory?

2

Also… While I was going back through my code to plug potential errors, I cam to something I don’t know how to handle.

What if - for some reason - I call the function to load a new song before the last song finishes loading?
Will the system then be loading two songs at once? Will they both call the “song loaded” function with the obj referencing their specific AudioClip?
Is there a way to stop or cancel the older load function?

3

If you’re assigning the loaded asset to a local field, you can Addressables.Release the AsyncOperationHandle once you’re done with it.